Audience Launches First Smart Sound Processor – earSmart eS515

Audience today announced the world’s first Smart Sound Processor, the earSmart eS515. The earSmart eS515 Smart Sound Processor combines the company’s award-winning Advanced Voice processing technology with its first high-performance, low-power audio codec for a best in class voice, speech recognition and multimedia experience on a mobile device.

The earSmart eS515 features Audience’s third generation Advanced Voice technologies. The earSmart eS515 delivers the world’s first three-microphone technology where all three microphones can be used simultaneously to gather more environmental information around the user anddeliver vastly improved voice quality. In addition, the earSmart eS515 supports high sample-rate VoIP calls, offering the industry’s best voice quality for narrowband and wideband networks. The earSmart eS515 is also the first sound processor to offer de-reverberation for mobile devices – removing the echo effect in spaces such as conference rooms and hallways. The earSmart eS515 is currently sampling to customers globally.For more information on the Audience earSmart family of products and more detailed specifications on the eS515, please go here.

“In recent months, Audience has demonstrated its commitment to delivering the best-sounding voice and audio experience on pioneering mobile devices like the Samsung Galaxy Note II, the Google Nexus 10, the Motorola Razr I, and the world’s thinnest Android smartphone, the BBK vivo X1,” said Peter Santos, president and CEO, Audience. “The earSmart eS515 Smart Sound Processor is the first product to offer our Advanced Voice technology integrated with a complete audio codec subsystem – it takes us to the next stage in sound processing, providing our customers with a level of performance, integration, efficiency and auditorypresence never before experienced.”